Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

The boundary of a solar system is not defined by planets, but by gravity. Beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt lies the Oort ...

With the vastness of the Universe, everything in it seems so spread out. But some objects are closer than you might realize. Every now and then, a random interstellar asteroid passes through the Oort ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025, by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile and was quickly ...

Among these celestial visitors — the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, along with C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN) — not ...

What lies beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt? Today we explore the Oort Cloud a vast, invisible shell of trillions of icy ...

The Oort Cloud is a massive, invisible shell of icy objects that surrounds our entire solar system. It starts thousands of ...

A rogue star is headed straight for our Sun. If these two stars slam into each other, it could spell the end of all life on ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has flagged at least 16 anomalies in his handful of studies so far. While speculations abound ...

The latest finding offers "a window into the dark universe,” said one of the researchers behind the groundbreaking discovery.

Unlike the comets that call our solar system home, 3I/ATLAS is a cosmic nomad on a hyperbolic trajectory — a one-time flyby ...

Sedna is drifting into a part of its path where human technology can finally contemplate catching up, and that window will ...